Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Stanford University Medical School, USA

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is an Emertius Professor at Stanford University, where he has been since 1970. He is one of the most distinguished geneticists of the twentieth century and has dedicated his research to the study of the origin of modern humans and their evolutionary history by using genetic markers.... read moreHis work has always taken a multi-disciplinary approach including demography, archaeology, linguistics, anthropology, surnames and to the interactions of genetic and cultural evolution. Prof. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza sadly passed away in August 2018.